The Hazara community, which represents between 10 and 20% of the Afghan population, is persecuted for a long time in this country largely Sunnite.
Le Monde with AFP
Two days after an attack against a school of a Shiite district of Kabul, at least ten people were killed and fifteen wounded in an explosion that struck Thursday, April 20 a Shiite mosque of Mazar-e Charif, in the north of Afghanistan, said a Taliban official of the local police. Images broadcast on social networks showed victims from hospitals from Seh Dokan Mosque, whose soil was littered with broken glass pieces.
Tuesday, at least six people had been killed and twenty-four wounded in two explosions hitting a boys school of a Kabul district largely populated by members of the Shiite Hazara minority.
The Hazara community often targeted by the EI
The Hazara community, which represents between 10 and 20% of the Afghan population (about 40 million inhabitants), is persecuted for a long time in this country largely Sunni. It has often been targeted by the Islamic State group (EI) since the Taliban’s Taliban has taken on the past.
Security has improved in Afghanistan since the return to power of the Taliban and the withdrawal of American troops, after twenty years of a war of wear against their military presence. Attacks, mainly claimed by the Islamic State in Khorassan (EI-K), the regional branch of the EI, however, occur still regularly.